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...fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace Atterbury...
...prodigy of versatility and popularity was the late Fenton Benedict Turck-doctor, scientist, esthete. The variety among his close friends mirrored the variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action...
...cupid-encrusted office at No. 32 Nassau St., Manhattan, where Jay Gould used to play financial chess with railroads for queens, hulking old Leonor Fresnel Loree has sat growling into his beard for seven years, trying to thwart a checkmate. Occasionally he would stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell...
...Commission and the "Big Four" railway systems-New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania. They had balked his every effort to form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
...traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section of the main line washed out by the Johnstown flood. At 38 he was jumped over a dozen heads to the job of General Manager West of Pittsburgh. When the Pennsylvania bought the dilapidated Baltimore & Ohio, Leonor Loree was sent in as president...